Security is mostly a superstition.It does not exist in nature,nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.Avoiding danger is no saferin the long run than outright exposure.Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.- Helen Keller

My father and he had one of those English friendshipswhich begins by avoiding the intimaciesand eventually eliminates speech altogether.- Jorge Luis Borges

When we come into the present,we begin to feel the life around us again,but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding.We must have the courage to face whatever is present -our pain, our desires, our grief,our loss, our secret hopes our love -everything that moves us most deeply.- Jack Kornfield

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponedto the advantage of others.- Niccolo Machiavelli

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You have to be an original individual;you have to find your innermost core on your own,with no guide, no guiding scriptures.It is a dark night, but with the intense fire of inquiryyou are bound to come to the sunrise.Everybody who has burned with intense inquiryhas found the sunrise.Others only believe.Those who believe are not religious,they are simply avoiding the great adventureof religion by believing.- Osho

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.- Virginia Woolf

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.- John Guare

I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age;you take care of every day -let the calendar take care of the years.- Ed Wynn

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time,it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.- Bo Bennett

I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy.I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can'tfind a way of avoiding it.- Brigitte Bardot

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us;and endeavor to excel them,by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.- Plutarch

When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades werejust a means of simply avoiding being by myself.I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself.- Michael Zaslow

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing ofuseless contraptions and in constructing the usefulcombinations which are in infinite minority.- Henri Poincare

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposinga cognitive style on workers and their work.- Edward Tufte

Do not worry about avoiding temptation.As you grow older it will avoid you.- Joey Adams

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure butI have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself andothers of innocent enjoyments.- Rutherford B. Hayes

I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.- Dan Abrams

I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits;I started to be aware of my feelings more,rather than numb them.- Judith Wright

It's all about being flexible, and avoiding choices whenever possible.Choices suck, they are inherently limiting.- Craig Armstrong

Avoiding the phrase "I don't have time...",will soon help you to realize that you do have thetime needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.- Bo Bennett

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physicalviolence but also internal violence of spirit.You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.- John D. MacDonald

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Much talking is the cause of danger.Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage.Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.- Saskya Pandita

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.- Edsger Dijkstra

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles,but in avoiding them.A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.- Norman Vincent Peale

But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doingnow because it's frustrating for people to hear aboutthings that aren't available yet.- John Frusciante

The life of the creative man is lead,directed and controlled by boredom.Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.- Susan Sontag

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity,I would have to say it is avoiding worry,stress and tension.And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.- George Burns

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.- Ayn Rand

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.- Robert Cecil

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.- Paul Tillich

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriatelimits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary powerstruggles that result in unhappiness.- Charlotte Davis Kasl

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.- Syd Barrett

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom,since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.- Rudolf Arnheim

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts;every action of animal life is concerned with seekingbodily pleasure and avoiding pain.- Saint Augustine

States are looking for low-cost solutions that willenable better communication,while avoiding the danger in which the chain of commandbreaks down in emergencies.We do not want everyone talking to everyone else all the time.- John Shimkus

He shall sit solitary by avoiding the company of men,he shall hold his peace by meditating upon the joys of heaven,and he has risen above his state by tasting celestial delights.- Saint Bonaventure Sequoyah

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride wherethe hell they like and aim in a state of rage at allpedestrians while ringing their bell loudly,the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.- Terry Prachett

The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harmto Zionist interests outside of Palestine,not from weakness or lack of ability to do so,but because Hamas does not wish for further frontsto be opened against it around the world.- Ahmed Yassin

Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns,and he is doing it again now, by not telling peoplewhat is really necessary.He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues,those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions.- Angela Merkel

The British system denied any role for human creativity,and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires,pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain,objective laws would naturally guide society to achievethe best allocation of wealth.- Robert Trout

It's about avoiding reality through various escaperoutes that become addictions and lead to Hell.My character is addicted to television,chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son,which has no basis in reality.- Ellen Burstyn

I want to be clear.No company is too big to be prosecuted.We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud,but we also recognize the importance of avoiding collateralconsequences whenever possible.- Alberto Gonzales

For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale.It would be useful to make out a list of fundamentalquestions on the matter to be dealt with,and discuss only those.- Karl Lehmann

I always recommend a sensible diet, including lotsof carbohydrates and avoiding too much fat.Dancers don't need different fuel from other people -they just need more of it because they use more energy.- Deborah Bull

Simply do your best, and you will avoidself-judgment, self-abuse and regret.- don Miguel Ruiz

A "No" uttered from deepest convictionis better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please,or what is worse, to avoid trouble.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Merely to avoid harming others is not enough.Earn your place in this world by doing good.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.- Elbert Hubbard

The higher the sun rises, the less shadow it casts;even so, the greater is the goodness, the less it covets praise;yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.- Lao Tzu

It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.- Publilius Syrus

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.- Dale Carnegie

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize.The first is gentleness;the second is frugality;the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others.Be gentle and you can be bold;be frugal and you can be generous;avoid putting yourself before othersand you can become a leader among men.- Lao Tzu

A sloth lives a pretty good life, s-l-o-w-l-y.Maybe we have something to learn from him.Some days, being sloth-like may be just what you needto avoid being consumed by urgency.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be Impeccable With Your Word.Speak with integrity.Say only what you mean.Avoid using your word to speak against yourselfor to gossip about others.Use the power of your wordin the direction of truth and love.- don Miguel Ruiz

People will do anything, no matter how absurd,to avoid facing their own souls.- Carl Jung

Do you not know that there comes a midnight hourwhen every one has to throw off his mask?Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked?Do you think you can slip away a little before midnightin order to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it?I have seen men in real life who so long deceived othersthat at last their true nature could not reveal itself;...In every man there is something which to a certain degreeprevents him from becoming perfectly transparent to himself;and this may be the case in so high a degree,he may be so inexplicably woven into relationships of lifewhich extend far beyond himself that he almost cannot reveal himself.But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love,and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all.- Soren Kierkegaard

Important ideas can come from unexpected places.We tend to label people - Genius, Idiot,Socialist, Regressive, Wingnut, Revolutionary, Terrorist.But it is helpful to remind ourselves to be opento good ideas - whatever their source.It is equally important to avoid accepting any ideamerely because we respect that person'sother ideas or accomplishments.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.- Alan Thicke